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Ah, the beauty of GPS...around here following it slavishly will take you over hill, over dale...through a cow pasture, and the exact opposite of the shortest way to go. But, it's right, it's sure it is, even when it tells you in 4 steps how to do a U-turn...and go the wrong way again!

Ah, bimbos with GPS's. What is it with them? In the first big snowstorm of last winter we got stuck behind one at night while trying to go through a mountain pass; basically blizzard conditions, folks stuck all over the place; a 4-lane highway with only one lane sort-of clear. We come upon a lone SUV, inexplicably stopped, with an airhead in it who made no effort to start her car and get moving, or indicate that she'd broken down, or ask for help, or roll over and die, nothing. While dozens of cars backed up behind her, the only thing she did was keep turning on her GPS and looking at it, taking it off the windshield, fiddling with it, putting it back up, looking at it some more. What she thought the frickin' GPS was going to do for her on that snowy mountainside is beyond comprehension. WTF do people think a GPS does? Produce a jetpack and fly you away? Punch a hole in the space-time continuum? What?

GPS does not work very well in built-up area. The tall buildings all around affects the reception... At least that's what the huz said in during the numerous times when I was really tempted to fling the Garmin out of the car window...

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